Politcal newcomer Marianne Smith won the special election for the District 4 seat in the Bryan County Board of Education Tuesday.
Smith tallied 51 percent of the vote to Jeff Morton's 49 percent.
Meanwhile Noah Covington forced a runoff with incumbent Joe Kendrick for the District 1 County Commission seat.
Covington took 48 percent of the ballots cast to Kendrick's 28 percent. Former commissioner Ed Bacon pulled in 24 percent of the votes.
Any one candidate would have had to have received 50 percent plus one vote to have won without a runoff.
The runoff will take place on Dec. 4.